Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.

She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed though a long servitude, though its own self-hatred, though mockery, though great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.